Perstorp Municipality () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
Skåne County
Skåne County ( ), sometimes referred to as Scania County or just Scania in English, is the southernmost Counties of Sweden, county, or , of Sweden, mostly corresponding to the traditional Provinces of Sweden, province of Scania. It borders th ...
in southern
Sweden
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. Its seat is located in the town
Perstorp.
Perstorp was made a market town (''
köping
''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word '' kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munic ...
'') in 1947. It was amalgamated with ''Oderljunga'' in the first of the two nationwide local government reforms (1952). The reform of 1971 did not bring any new amalgamations, but the ''köping'' status was abolished.
Locality
There is only one
urban area
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(also called a Tätort or locality) in Perstorp Municipality, the municipal seat
Perstorp, with a population of 5,468 (2005).
The name Perstorp is perhaps most known by the company
Perstorp AB, based in the municipality, employing 1,800 people worldwide. They are producing chemicals market and materials technology. They are also known for a subsidiary called Perstorp Flooring, producing
laminate
Simulated flight (using image stack created by μCT scanning) through the length of a knitting needle that consists of laminated wooden layers: the layers can be differentiated by the change of direction of the wood's vessels
Shattered windshi ...
and
plastic
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floor material.
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Perstorp Municipality's electoral districts in the
2022 Swedish general election
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sourced from
SVT's election platform, in turn taken from
SCB official statistics.
In total there were 7,541 residents, including 5,143 Swedish citizens of voting age.
[ 36.1% voted for the left coalition and 62.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income. The district of Oderljunga saw the ]Sweden Democrats
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receive 53% of the vote,
References
Statistics Sweden
External links
*
Perstorp
- Official site
Perstorp AB
- The company Perstorp AB
Municipalities of Skåne County
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